Reel Brooklyn: Buzzin’ Around, Midwood

Reel Brooklyn is a biweekly column chronicling the definitive history of Brooklyn on-screen, one film—and neighborhood—at a time.
Movies as archaeology: when the medium was invented, that’s what a lot of people saw, a way finally to freeze history in its tracks. Documents of prewar Brooklyn neighborhoods are not common, as most film production migrated to the predictable sunshine of southern California by the mid-20s. But check out Buzzin’ Around (1933), an early-talkie